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A67065	An account of some of the dying-sayings of Susannah Yeats, late wife of Samuel Yeats, of the parish of Minching-Hammpton in Glocester-shire with a sermon preached at her funeral by Thomas Worden ...	Worden, Thomas.; Yeats, Susannah, d. 1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3577; ESTC R31846	16,577	40

ver 1. For we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens So that you see here is but an old tottering Tabernacle which stands up betwixt the People of God and this purchased glorious Inheritance reserved in Heaven for them and Christ will have it down he will have his Mansion-places filled above which must be with the fall of his Saints Bodies here below This made Peter to look upon his Dissolution as most necessary 2 Pet. 1. 14. Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me He knew that his Dissolution was very necessary to his glorious Possession and so it is to every believer else Lastly WE are now come to improve the whole 1. Vse IS this a truth That good Men must dye as well as bad Men Learn hence then to know what an exceeding evil Sin is it is Sin that hath drawn and drag'd us into the Valley of the Shadows of so many Deaths that we are become dead to God spiritually and do dye out of the World corporally and that some do dye and perish eternally it is Sin which hath been the cause of all this Oh Sinner Sinner didst thou ever seriously lay this to thy heart If so how canst thou nourish such a Viper in thy Bosom which hath procured so many Deaths for thee DID Sampson desire to take revenge upon the Philistines for their plucking out of his two Eyes Alas what a small Injury was that compared with the mischief which Sin hath done to thee And yet thou art so far from taking Vengeance on thy Sins that all the World cannot perswade thee to break thy cursed League with it but still thou holdest fast thy Iniquity and refusest to return as if nothing could make thee more happy than Sin an evil which hath made thee so miserable here and will make thee a thousandfold more miserable hereafter I SHALL conclude this Use with presenting two Scriptures to thy Consideration with this Request to thee poor hardned blinded Sinner that if thou hast any value for thy invaluable Soul slight not the Consideration of them Ezek. 18. 31. Cast away from you all your Transgressions whereby you have transgressed and make you a new Heart and a new Spirit for why will ye dye O house of Israel Ezek. 11. 21. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their Abominations I will recompence their way upon their own heads saith the Lord God. 2. Vse MVST the good Man dye as well as the bad Man Let the thoughts of it teach us all to wean our selves from this World and from each other in it betimes Let us all learn the Lesson given us by Paul 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. But this I say Brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have Wives be as tho they have none and they that weep as tho they wept not and they that rejoice as tho they rejoyced not and they that buy as tho they possessed not and they that use this World as not abusing it for the fashion of this World passeth away The meaning is that we should hold every thing with a loose hand that it may the easier drop from us when either we must drop from them or them from us when we foolishly espouse our Friends and Relations too near our Affections it comes to pass too often that when God rips them from us he thereby many a time rips away our Hearts with them and leaves us so empty as we can neither enjoy our selves nor any of our Friends enjoy us for some years after therefore in as much as a ripping time will come let us labour what we can to unglue our selves from every heart-endearment below God. Oh remember your Husbands will dye your Wives must dye Parents and Children must dye and you must dye therefore labour to dye to them all first and let it be your great care to live to God and then when you shall cease to live with Men you shall live with God which is best of all 3. Use MVST good Men dye as well as bad Men Let us learn then to prepare for Death it will be the saddest hour that ever came upon you should Death seize on you before you are prepared for it therefore in order to your Preparation for Death take these Rules 1. Rule GET your selves well hous'd and harboured in Jesus Christ the true Ark indeed before this Flood of Death comes upon you Oh how sweetly did Noah sing in his Ark when the Flood of Destruction was upon the face of the whole Earth Oh so will it only be with those who only are in Christ when the Flood of Death draws nigh to their Souls Oh how sweetly will they sing then 1 Cor. 15. 54 55 56 57. O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy Victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. It will be the saddest Providence that ever thou mettest with in all thy life should thy body be laid into the grave before thy Soul by Faith is well incorporated into Christ He that hath no Union with Christ is dead while he lives and to see a Man dying before he began to live this is one of the saddest objects under Heaven Rule 2. IF you would prepare for Death see to it that the work of regeneration be wrought upon your Souls while you are alive which work lieth in a work of Grace supernaturally infused into your hearts Tit. 3. 5. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost The necessariness of this Work you may perceive by our Saviours words to Nicodemus 1 John 3. 3. And Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. There be some that will tell you a fine Story of Regeneration that it lies in an assent of Faith given to the truths of the Gospel with an obedient walking to the Rules of the same What is this Notion but a mere Cheat put upon your Souls for this differs as far from Regeneration as Lead differs from Silver or Brass differs from Gold. For this strange Notion of Regeneration supposeth three things 1. THAT man by Nature can discern the things of God or else to what purpose do these men talk of revealing Gospel-truths to the minds of men but this is expresly against the word 1 Cor. 2. 14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can be know them because they are spiritually discerned 2. IT supposeth That every

AN ACCOUNT Of some of the Dying-Sayings OF SUSANNAH YEATS Late Wife of SAMVEL YEATS of the Parish of Minching-Hampton in Glocester-shire WITH A SERMON Preached at her Funeral By THOMAS WORDEN Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1688. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IT is storied of Latimer the Bishop that on a time when he was to Preach before King Edward the 6th his Theme was Take heed and beware of Covetousness and so kept on the Repetition of it five or six times together as if he intended that his Sermon should consist of no more words than his bare Theme viz. Take heed and beware of Covetousness BVT if the Bishop were now alive he would see cause to alter his Subject in turning of it from Covetousness to Death FOR as he made use of after Arguments to dehort his Auditors from that Sin so now would he see need to make as often a Repetition of the word Death as the Prophet did of the word Earth O Earth Earth hear the word of the Lord and all would be too little to affright this Age from more gross Sins IT is our unhappy Lot to live in an Age wherein our most sharp Brains are more enclined to exercise the Vanity of Wit than to labour after true Wisdom which would render the ensuing Subject the less pleasant to them For how is it possible that Men should read a Subject of Death with pleasure who so much abound in Sin while they live with so much pleasure IT was the saying once of Queen Elizabeth That of all the Books which she had read she prized mostly these two viz. Senica and the Bible and it would be no small mercy to the most of our Age if they could say That of all things in the World they mostly love these two viz. to live to Christ and to dye to Sin because to such a man Death will not appear as a Lyon but as a Lamb. For those whose bleeding Wounds by Sin are not healed by the Blood of Christ their Death will make the greatest Wound at last IF the Preaching of Death to mens Ears would be the Death of Sin in their Hearts the ensuing Subject then might be as Solomon speaks of seasonable Words viz. like Appels of Gold in Pictures of Silver But instead of any hope this way may we not sit down with the Prophets complaint and cry out as he did Isa 28. 10 12. Tho line upon line be brought to this People and precept upon precept here a little and there a little yet they will not hear As to the following Subject treated upon it was preached at the Funeral of one of my Congregation But if any shall expect quaintness of Words or elegancy of Phrase he will find but little which would suit that humour THEREFORE those that usually read Books to please their Fancies more than to encrease their Faith and love to have their Ears tickled with fine Words rather than their Hearts toucht with real Truths will little applaud the Discourse IF thou readest rather to acquaint thy self with flourishing Sentences than to affect thy Heart with real Substances thou must leave the School of Christ and betake thy self to a Heathenish Academy THE greatest care taken about the following Discourse hath been to trim it up in a Jacob-like Dress plain and pious It s Garment is like to the Israelites Robes for their Humiliation not Silk but Sackcloth Therefore what Beauty lieth in it resembles the stile given of the Church Psal 45. 13. It 's only glorious within It s beauty appears not so much in the Letter without as it doth in the Spirit within AND if thou contemn it only for want of an external Beauty that will but bespeak to thy face thy want of Spirituality I DO declare I never had any further intent in the Study of the ensuing Discourse than to content my self with the bare Preaching of it For to say all I never deem'd it worthy of so publick a view as it 's now arrived unto only strong Importunity hath drag'd it out of my Hand and that it 's now published it 's rather to humour my Friend than to please my self any further than it may be serviceable to some poor Soul. But that God that can make dry Bones to live if he shall make this dry Bone of any quickning-use to thee give God the Praise and me thy Prayer That God would make me in his hand A means that some may understand What slavery their Souls are in Who wilfully do live in Sin That so they may be brought to see The captiv'd State and Misery That Satan have them in beyond all doubt Unless the Lord of Life do work them out And then when they to Christ by Faith do run As Persons that are quite undone And so by Faith on him do clinch Their fiery heat of guilt to quench Which will make Sin the greatest pain And Godliness the greatest gain And by believing rest upon The Lord of Life when this is done Do live to him in Righteousness Its wages being Blessedness Which alters Death from being a foe Which will also free them from woe And land them in their Haven of Rest Where they shall ever be and blest The good of which will make my Crown So heavy that it will weigh down All the discouragements which attend My painful labours to the end Yet do but me thy Prayers give And that will always me relieve Until my painful work be done And I at rest to Joy am come Thine and the Churches Servant THOMAS WORDEN The Dying-Sayings of Susannah Yeats the Wife of Samuel Yeats an Inhabitant in the Parish of Minching Hampton c. ON the Monday night after she fell sick was a night of great temptation to her who lay under the violent assaulting hand of Satan for four hours together the next morning she related her Condition to a Friend which came to see her When after her Friend had asked her how it was with her She replied in these words I remember what my Pastor said once That when Satan is busy with his Tempations to a Person in a Sick-bed it is a sign of Death But said she he hath been busy with me this Night After she had thus said she related what her temptations had been the Night before First she had a sight of Satans appearance to her claiming a propriety in her and that all her endeavour would be but lost labour at last Unto whom she replied O thou Coward that knowest I am a weak Woman weak in Body and weak in Faith if thou hast any thing to lay to my Charge get thee gone go to the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah he will plead my Cause for me if there be not Mercy enough in God if there be not Merit enough in the Blood of Jesus Christ if there be not worth enough in his Righteousness nor Grace enough in his Sanctification